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Only with picture frames, or wood frames of your own self you turn your walls into a gallery unique and fun, decorating your walls with handmade picture frames.
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DIY beautiful home with old furniture, or furniture create a simple and effective way has gradually been housewives or husbands favorite resourceful and applications. Not only is the joy of seeing the "works" by making themselves can contribute to your loved beautiful homes, but also for the opportunity to express creativity as well as the interest that you have for Sale his family.
This weekend International decor will you do with your beautiful house with old picture frames, or simple homemade wooden frame.
Use empty picture frames, wooden frames or picture frame shaped as in combination with other decorative items in these topics that you can relate to:
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Memories of the sea:
With the old picture frames, or wood frames removed from the wooden table was removed and the shells brought back from the beach trip, you can create a lovely picture. To add the pictures to the wall like this you need to use glue 3 frames and components help shell can adhere to the wall.
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Four seasons:
Instead of putting the frame of your postcards or gifts in the holidays, birthdays in a drawer or cabinet, you take advantage of them to decorate the walls of the house. You can squeeze dry leaves have beautiful shape that you like and then use them as cute little pictures.
A little improvisation:
A common dry fruits, a small tree branch, a petite feathers can form unique paintings and fusion.
Wall flowers:
Looking at this picture frame seems quite complicated because not everyone is skilled enough to draw the lines so soft, in fact, your job is very simple to use decal stickers pasted on the wall and attach the bracket up on the competition.
There are many handmade ideas for wall decorations at this site you also like:
And other ideas to decorating wall with art painting:
The square wooden plates and pieces of patterned wallpaper and color harmony can also become beautiful paintings for your room.
You simply paste this piece of paper around the wood panels and hang them up as you have finished your work.
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Wishing you and family fun weekend with your favorite frame.


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HSSU Faculty Take Historic Step to Unionize
Ooctober 10, 2013
With the goal of building "a stellar institution of higher learning for students," full-time faculty at Harris-Stowe State University, a historically black university in St. Louis, Missouri, voted Tuesday to unionize.
"This is a great day for Harris-Stowe State University," says Mark Abbott, president of HSSU-NEA, a newly recognized affiliate of Missouri NEA. "A collective bargaining agreement will strengthen the university and enhance the education of our students."
The vote on Tuesday authorizes MNEA to represent all full-time regular faculty members—there are currently 46—for the purposes of collective bargaining. The HSSU-NEA is MNEA's first bargaining unit from a four-year institution of higher education, noted MNEA president Charles E. Smith. "We applaud them for their success," said Smith. "The MNEA leaders at Harris-Stowe will have the assistance and resources of the 35,000 member Missouri NEA and the 3 million member NEA as they work with HSSU administrators to reach a collective bargaining agreement."
Faculty members at HSSU, where student enrollment dropped this year and graduation rates remain low, have long wanted a stronger voice in campus issues. Their vote on Tuesday was a enthusiastic endorsement of "shared governance," the common practice in higher education of faculty and staff participating in important decisions on campuses.
Through the practice of shared governance, faculty members can increase professional development opportunities, so that they can better serve students. They can also create and implement best-practice tenure and promotion policies, so that the most highly qualified faculty can be recruited and retained.
Faculty members also have a number of other student-centered goals: They want to improve student enrollment strategies for recruitment and retention; they want to improve student campus life; they want to own a curriculum that offers students more choices; and they want more direct involvement in student advising.
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by Mark Horner
What if you were told that 10-minutes of your time could save a life? And–just maybe–your own life. Or your kid's. Or your dad's. Yes, mom's life, too.
10-minutes free of labor.
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Okay—if you've peeked at the tags on this post—your hunch is correct. This is a video about texting while driving.
Maybe you already feel bombarded by the anti "TWD" campaigns. But you've probably never seen a video quite like this one. It'll strip-away any lurking numbness from the topic.
This is Reggie Shaw's story. And the story of the people he killed. And their families.
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While just over 10 percent of the city's bridges are in need of structural repair, according to a federal study released last week, 61 bridges in the state, coming in second to Oklahoma with 71 in the nation, are in desperate need of repair.
These repairs should be the next overhaul for the city before long overdue repairs become a serious threat to drivers.
Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney called for work to begin on reconstructing the nearly 70-year-old Kosciuszko Bridge between Brooklyn and Queens, however the proposal is still awaiting a request for proposal (RFP).
"Commuters want safety and convenience," said Malony alongside a number of elected officials at the bridge last month. "No one wants to see what happened in Washington State happen in New York."
The collapse she was referring to injured several drivers along a 160-foot section of Interstate 5 over the Skagit River 55 miles north of Seattle, a bridge that was nearly 60 years old (built in 1955).
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According to a Reason report titled, "Are Highways Crumbling? State and U.S. Highway Performance Trends, 1989 – 2008," the number of deficient bridges across the country fell from 37.8 percent to 23.7 percent, however New York has not yet caught up with the trend.
The report cited New York and California as the only two states still worsening in data over last 20 years, with New York rising more than 6.1 percent in poor conditions.
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The right to bear arms is the only true bulwark against government tyranny and mass murder
Nicholas Kristoff is very excited about the opportunity the Newtown shootings present to advance a gun control agenda. (By the way, have you noticed that the media narrative is that the Progressives are not politicizing a tragedy when they use it to advocate everything from gun control to higher taxes, but that the Republicans are disgustingly politicizing a tragedy when they argue it should not be used as an excuse to take mad public policy leaps. Just sayin'….)
In his latest column, Kristoff sets up a few straw men and, with child-like glee, shoots them down. The straw man response that interested me was his cavalier dismissal of the Second Amendment:
We have the Second Amendment, which protects our right to bear arms. So don't talk about gun control!
There's a reasonable argument that the Second Amendment confers an individual right — to bear a musket. Beyond that, it's more complicated. Everybody agrees on a ban on fully automatic machine guns. The question isn't whether to limit the right to bear arms, but where to draw the line.
Mr. Kristoff, how dumb do you think your readers are? Well, never mind that question. To the extent you preach to the New York Times crowd, most of them are probably every bit as ill-informed, credulous, and illogical as you think they are.
Let me ask a different, more pertinent, question: How dumb do you think the Founding Fathers were?
First of all, just as a little bit of historical information, muskets weren't the only arms available during and after the American Revolution. Those who wanted to own arms had a broad array of weapons from which to choose. Thus, in addition to those muskets, they also had rifles (the Tennessee mountain men were famed for their abilities with that weapon), pistols, and blunderbusses. Yes, they were slow-loading, but what was important was that they were equal in force to the weapons the British Army used.
Putting aside Kristoff's obvious factual error, he also does the Founders a profound disservice by saying that they were using the word "arms" as a synonym for "musket." In fact, "arms" referred to all weapons, swords and cannons included. By using such a broad term, the Founders were also leaving open the possibility of new weapons. Otherwise, they would have said, "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear muskets manufactured on or before 1791, shall not be infringed." Tellingly, these men, who used language with a facility and brilliance unknown today, chose not to speak with such specificity.
What Kristoff is really missing, though, isn't the bit about the type of "arms" involved, but the reason for those arms: "being necessary to the security of a free State." What the Founders were saying is that the people should always have the ability to defend themselves against aggression from their own government. With that principle in mind, you can see where the Founders would have been happy to see citizens armed with the most sophisticated weapons available in any era — provided that those weapons match the fire-power of government weapons in the same era.
The Founders weren't the only ones who had figured out the importance of an armed population as a bulwark against totalitarianism. As Paul Harvey wrote back in 2000, dictators of all stripes have realized that the single greatest defense against their tyrannical goals is an armed population:
– In 1929 the Soviet Union established gun control. From 1929 to 1953, approximately 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
– In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915-1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
– Germany established gun control in 1938 and from 1939 to 1945, 13 million Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, the mentally ill, and others, who were unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
– China established gun control in 1935. From 1948 to 1952, 20 million political dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
– Guatemala established gun control in 1964. From 1964 to 1981, 100,000 Mayan Indians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
– Uganda established gun control in 1970. From 1971 to 1979, 300,000 Christians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
– Cambodia established gun control in 1956. From 1975 to 1977, one million "educated" people, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
That weapons in the people's hands may be used for other purposes (e.g., hunting, recreation, home-defense) or misused entirely (e.g., Sandy Hook, Columbine, or Fort Hood), is irrelevant to the primary purposes behind our constitutional right to bear arms. Individual murders have happened at all times, in all places, with all types of weapons. The Founders weren't naive nor were they stupid. They fully understood that "arms" could be misused. Nevertheless, they made a moral calculation and determined that the risk of a thousand lives lost (or even ten thousand lives lost) was much less than the risk of millions of lives lost, with many millions more reduced to slaves of the state.
Maybe Kristoff is as woefully misinformed and as intellectually un-curious as he appears. My suspicion, though, is that he's a man on the Left with an agenda, one that sees the unwashed masses rendered helpless so that their Ivy League educated, elite betters can impose the loving tyranny that would make this land a new Utopia.
(As an aside, I'll add here that a career military man I know says that, whether they were in Africa or the Middle East, many of their efforts were to arm beleaguered citizens who were being turned into mincemeat by forces belonging to their own government. The people there have seldom died because individuals had arms. Instead, the various massacres and ethnic cleansing across Africa might never have happened had ordinary people been able to defend themselves against the government hordes.)


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Confirmation Book Recommendations
Book Review by Ann Jonas, Tradebook Buyer - CSB/SJU Bookstores
this review was published in the St. Cloud Visitor
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Living Catholic Faith by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen and LeAnn Thieman; published by Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing, December 2008
The first Chicken Soup for the Soul book was published in 1993; more than 150 Chicken Soup titles have been published during that time. This recently published book contains 101 stories written by Catholics of all ages and religious experiences. Some of the stories are about growing up in the faith; others are stories of miraculous experiences. The book is divided into 10 chapters, some of which are "Angels Among Us", "The Power of Prayer", "Lessons" and "Faith." Uplifting and heart-warming, this inspirational book makes a great gift for Confirmation and other occasions as well.
All Saints: Daily Reflections on Saints, Prophets, and Witnesses For Our Time by Robert Ellsberg; published by Crossroad Publishing, September 1997
This book was published over 10 years ago, but still has appeal to a wide range of readers. Ellsberg has compiled insightful portraits--one for each day of the year--of men and women who have led inspiring lives and are great role models. Well-known saints and spiritual giants such as St. Teresa of Avila, St. Benedict, Thomas Merton, and Henri Nouwen are featured, along with a diverse list of other good people including social activists, mystics, martyrs, artists and writers (Dorothy Day, Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy and Sojourner Truth to name a few.) Ellsberg's concise profiles offer vivid examples of how to be a good person.
Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations by Alex & Brett Harris; published by Multnomah Books, April 2008
Written by teenage twins, this book offers a challenge to teens to raise their expectations and goals. The premise of the book is that our society expects very little from our teenagers, and as a result, they accomplish less than they would if their goals were loftier. The Harris twins use humorous anecdotes, biblical insights and practical examples to encourage and motivate young people to make a difference. They map out five powerful ways to make personal and social change happen. Do Hard Things has a great message for teens and adults, including parents, church leaders and educators. The message can inspire all generations to "do hard things."


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Islamofascism: Why It Is Fascism and Why Hating It Isn't RacistNicholas M. Guariglia
06 Dec 2007This is getting a bit tedious, but for as long as there are those who decry antifascists as something they are not, there must be those who forcefully defend the spirit of antifascism. A few weeks ago, student groups across some 200 universities aligned with commentator David Horowitz, amongst others, to declare Islamofascism Awareness Week. Such "cause-awareness" charades –– global warming/cooling awareness, the danger of giant man-eating squirrels/how to save endangered giant man-eating squirrels, etc. –– where do-gooders sit around a table and discuss how they "feel," usually leave me with a feeling of exasperation. But for this, I will concede: defending liberal Western munificence against foreign clericalism is no small gig.
This task, however, seems to begin with two fallacies leveled against the democratic resistance. The first untruth being that Islamist fanaticism is an aberration, not commonplace abroad; a political equal to its religious counterparts, not authoritarian; its followers simply misguided distorters of actual Islamic instruction, not the enforcers and heeders of literal Islamic text. The second lie, perpetrated by relativists and multicultural therapists, would be that challenging this despotism, in all its forms, is somehow indicative of racism; that hating a belief is the equivalent to hating a people. These two falsities should be confronted at the very start, and at their very core.
Let's start with the latter, and, I propose, the indisputable: Islam is not a race. Even its harshest critics, if they limit their criticism to doctrine and to those only who follow it, are not to be labeled bigoted or racist. Religion is an idea, a belief system not immune from mockery or even detestation, and abhorrence for it is perfectly ethical (and legal, at least in this country). Succumbing to political correctness would have me now declaring impartiality for all the monotheisms, claiming an equality for each theology. I am all for equal-time ridicule, but not today.
So let me be clear. There is very little about the Islamic faith, in particular, that I find believable or inspirational. The given-at-birth compulsory submission to a deity –– as its translation boasts –– is not my bag. An illiterate businessman-turned-general talking to angels and going on fantastical night journeys across the sky, taking six-year-olds as his wife, invading and converting large portions of planet, insisting his word alone is the final and unalterable directive of the divine… None of this makes me want to humble myself, get on my knees, and bow my head. I look at the life of Muhammad –– the pedophilia, the megalomania, the conquests –– and see John Mark Karr with an army.
But my contempt for this theological arrogance does not render a hatred for, or suspicion of, Muslims as individuals or as a people; nor will it, nor should it. I have a fair amount of Muslim friends, some of them very good friends, and, in the mold of Dr. King's litmus test, I judge them, like everyone else, based upon the content of their character –– not their genetic makeup. This is not racism anymore than disdain for Marxism is racism; anymore than abstract anticommunism undermines the concreteness of a beautiful Cuban girl, or the sincerity of a Russian acquaintance, for instance.
Those on campus who were wearing green to protest the original protesting of fascism should at least forfeit to irony: the green they don takes us back the "green shirts" of Haj Amin al Husseini, the Palestinian mufti and long time Hitler companion and proxy, as well as the Nazi-admiring Hassan al Banna, brown-shirt wannabe and founder of the Muslim Brotherhood. The lack of study into the fascist origins of contemporary Middle Eastern movements is just another sad example of Western self-loathing and academic indifference, but thankfully we have colleagues like Ryan Mauro to shed some light for us.
How quickly we forget that Mussolini, for example, was admiringly called Musa Nili across the Arab world. Who remembers the Waffen SS hit-squads that armed the warriors of Grand Mufti Husseini –– plush with Third Reich subsidies –– to liquefy anti-Nazi citizens of the Baltic? Did your last professor point out that the predecessors of al Qaida –– who Hitler called his Gebirgsjäger Muslim killers –– slaughtered 100,000 innocents by 1943?
It continues: Nazi agent General Khairallah Tulfah would go on to raise and mentor his Tikriti village nephew, Saddam Hussein. Future Egyptian presidents Nasser and Sadat –– supposed secularists –– mingled with the Brotherhood, which in turn spawned Egyptian Islamic Jihad, cradle of al Qaida linchpin Dr. al Zawahiri. (Nasser would later rely on ex-Gestapo goon Joachim Daumling to craft his own secret police force.)
Hitler's propagandist Johannes von Leers would flee postwar Germany, change his name to Omar Amin, and become a lead official in Egypt's information ministry, just as Sami al Joundi of the Syrian Ba'ath would brag, "We admired the Nazis. We were immersed in Nazi literature… we were the first who thought of a translation of Mein Kempf." (Eichmann aide Alois Brunner would also assist the Assads in Damascus.)
I could go on, but must I really?
When defending the label of fascist, however, none of this fascist-entrenched history really matters. The premise of subservience to a celestial dominion and the coerced obedience to the earthly holy men who implement this dominion is enough: it's Islamic and it's fascistic. It is a creed that seeks to control what you think, say, hear, read, eat and drink; who you talk to, who you befriend, and who you hold hands with. This is the root basis of totalitarianism and it's all in your God-given Qur'an. Societies, cultures, and peoples can most certainly change, but self-described infallible doctrine cannot. It was not designed to reform. Its divinity and irreversibility is the reason for its existence.
There used to be a proud secular tradition of liberal antifascism, but the veneer of multiculturalism and relativism has prodded such thinkers into a state of fear. Many are afraid to come across as intolerant of intolerance, lest they seem as if they are asserting political supremacy or cultural superiority. This is why Western operas have been canceled, why cartoons have been taken out of circulation, why movies have been taken off air, and why journalists and authors with prices on their heads are in hiding all across Europe –– all products of a free and wonderfully crude culture under threat from book-burning mullahs.
But there is good news. You do not have to oblige yourself into justifying deplorable atrocities in the name of "understanding." You do not have to defend the apocalyptic Haghani Circle of Iran, or the Salafist lecturers in Pakistan, or the Wahhabi royal family. You do not have to applaud the "transparency" of the Iranian committee entitled the "Council for Spreading Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Thoughts." When Hina Saleem's father cuts her throat, buries her in the yard, and faces her head towards Mecca before rigamortis sets in –– for the sin of loving an Italian man –– and most of the Islamic organizations in Europe (from the Union of Islamic Communities in Italy to the Islamic Cultural Association in Brescia) defend the murderer, not the victim, you do not have to conscript yourself into appreciating or defending this insanity. You're allowed to hate it.
Not all hate is improper. My hatred of the fascistic impulses of archaic shari'a law stems not from ignorance of "the other," but from knowledge. The more I learn, the more that is revealed, the stiffer my backbone becomes and the more I come to despise. This hatred is fine, as its converse would be immoral indifference.
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Vanuatu's tax-to-GDP ratio was 17.1% in 2017, below the OECD average (34.2%) by 17.1 percentage points, and also below the LAC and Africa (21)* averages (22.8% and 18.2%, respectively).
La OCDE y el Foro Global sobre la Transparencia e Intercambio de Informaci n con Fines Fiscales han anunciado hoy que Bahrein, L bano, Nauru, Panam y Vanuatu han asumido el compromiso de intercambiar autom ticamente informaci n de cuentas financieras con otros pa ses.
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Agreement between Australia and Vanuatu for the exchange of information relating to tax matters
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This special evaluation study assesses the effectiveness of Asian Development Bank support for public sector reforms in Pacific developing member countries.
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A synthesis report of recently completed evaluations of the Australian aid program's efforts to improve the delivery of basic services for the poor.
The Aid for Trade at a Glance 2009: Maintaining Momentum report presents the results of the second monitoring exercise of the Aid for Trade Initiative and documents its success so far.
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Akari Tatsushiro (龍代アカリ, Tatsushiro Akari) is a young girl that appears in the Naruto Shippūden: Dragon Blade Chronicles.
Akari is a young girl with bright, red hair and a light pink cloth covering two small horns on her head. Her eyes are amber. The light green medallion she wears around her neck matches the one that Kuroma wears on his belt. She wears dark red knee length boots that show her toes, a light lavender top with a salmon sleeveless top over it and a dark red skirt. She also wears a thick purple sash with lavender zigzags.
Plot Overview
She is the younger sister of Kuroma. The two, as members of the Ryū clan, are both connected to the five Genryū, whose power Kuroma seeks to take so that he can become a dragon of light and destroy all life. She is the one who gives Naruto the Dragon Blade near the beginning of the game to fight the Earth Genryū in Konohagakure, and teams up with Team Kakashi for the rest of the game as a guide through Mount Koryū. She continued to supply information to the team as they made their way through the mountain.
Near the end of the game, when Naruto Uzumaki was fighting Kuroma, he went into his three-tailed form after seeing his friends get hurt. Akari pleaded with Naruto not to kill Kuroma, but Naruto, influenced by the Nine-Tails, simply charged at her instead. Just before he got to her, though, Sakura Haruno shouted his name, bringing him back to his senses after an inner battle with the fox. This, however, gave Kuroma enough time to initiate the ritual to absorb the power of the Genryū. However, before he could actually take their power, Akari pushed him out of the way, taking the power for herself so that she wouldn't lose Kuroma. As Kuroma began to mourn the loss of Akari, she turned into a Light Genryū. Akari then became the final boss of the game. She had six forms matching up to the elements of the previous five dragons, as well as a final light-based form, and Naruto had to eliminate each one before he could deal the finishing blow. Once defeated, Akari returned to normal, with the Genryū gone, and she and Kuroma soon discovered that their horns, as well as Kuroma's facial markings, had disappeared, freeing them from their burden as Dragon Guardians. The two departed together to lead new lives, no longer having to protect the Dragon Blade, and no longer being persecuted because of their appearances.
- '"Akari" (アカリ) means "light" or "bright". This is in contrast to Kuroma's name, which means "pure black", and also foreshadows her eventual transformation into the Light Genryū.
- In the English version, Akari is voiced by Eden Riegel, the real life younger sister of Sam Riegel, who voiced as Kuroma.
- Kuroma and Akari can be spotted in Gekitou Ninja Taisen Special in the background of the Village Entrance map.


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Possibly the best car show on television…ever, Top Gear has been at it again. This time the boys have sent Capt. Slow, James May, out to an airport to meet rally driver Ken Block and his Subaru Impreza rally car for a little Sunday drive.
Queue a few well-timed turns, some great photography, and toss Ricky Carmichael into the mix to see what happens. While not quite our area of focus, we thought any gearhead would appreciate this find.


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I really love this forum. Ive been reading as much as I can but still have so many questions. I have a 7.5 pound Papillon. I started out by using a premade raw (Stella & Chewys frozen dinners) until Im more comfortable doing it on my own. She loves the Stella & Chewys and is doing very well on it normal poops and no tummy troubles. Its very convenient as it has the meat/bone/organ/few veggies already mixed in for me. However, its a bit pricey so I was thinking of using the premade for one meal and then doing the second meal myself.
For the second meal I was thinking of doing a ground meat (beef, chicken or turkey), a hard boiled egg with crushed shell (she wont eat a raw egg) for calcium as there is no bone in this meal, and then maybe adding a veggie. I know dogs dont need veggies, but my dog loves raw carrots. I puree one baby carrot and then just chop a little bit of another one because she likes the hard crunchiness of the carrots. We are not ready to do raw bones yet. We know of a dog that choked on a raw bone so hubby refuses to do that yet. I know its very rare for that to happen so we probably will be adding that down the road, just not right now.
1. Does this sound like a good meal for her? Does the egg add too much protein? If so, should I just use the shell for the calcium?
2.If I crush several egg shells to make a powder can I store it for future use? How long will it be good? Does it need to be refrigerated?
3.I read you need ¼ tsp of powdered egg shell per pound of meat. My dog eats less than a pound per day. So, can I make a larger batch and freeze it or is it best to use the egg shell fresh?
Sorry for so many questions (I have many more, LOL). I would love any comments/suggestions.
Hi Kess,
Welcome to raw! I started my dog on raw about 8 months ago, and the difference has been amazing. I initially started because she had recurring fur loss, but the biggest change has been her demeanor. She is so much more calm, happy, and loving than she was before!
Doing raw on your own is not as scary as it seems - the best advice I got was to start small with one or two types of potien and increase your variety as you get more comfortable. Try whole smelt or sardines, which are easy for dogs to eat - I often give them to Pepe straight from the freezer. Chicken necks are also great, the bones are soft and easy to chew. There are more and more raw food suppliers popping up daily, most of them are very supportive and helpful.
Good luck, I'm sure your dog will love it!
You can get bone meal for your mixture. You should be able to find it at a pet store. If not, you can find it online http://www.arcatapet.com/item.cfm?cat=17177 That should be a little easier than crushing egg shells. Depending how your dog eats will depend on the risk of choking. Dogs choke on kibble too. My dog eats very very slow, so there is minimal risk of choking. A dog that gobbles it's food will be more prone to choking, no matter what it's eating. Raw bones are excellent for your dog. They clean their teeth and help dog breath. I hope hubby will come around. I do find it difficult to find a bones small enough to be 10% of my dogs meal. It's more like 50%. Good Luck and keep us posted on how she does!!
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Kess, have I a plan for you, but to save time I will just give you the url to find my opus on "little feeders", the perfect food for small dogs and all cats. If the little beggars didn't creep me out, this is the perfect food I would turn to. Cheep and easy, for sure. I know my Corgi would dive into these little snacks on legs. A bushel of grain and you'd be off to the races.
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- 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1/2 teaspoon sugar
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Fagan, Garth, 1940–, Jamaican-American dancer and choreographer. Jamaican-born, he studied with Ivy Baxter and left the island to dance with her company. Settling (1960) in Detroit, he attended Wayne State Univ. (grad. 1968) and studied with such dance luminaries as Pearl Primus, Martha Graham , and Alvin Ailey . In 1970 he founded his own company, based in Rochester, N.Y., and subsequently called Garth Fagan Dance. Working with this group and creating at least one new dance annually, he has established a signature style that combines the solidity of modern dance, the precision of ballet, rhythms and torso-centered movements from African and Caribbean sources, and an element of postmodern experimentation. He has also choreographed pieces for other dance troupes. Fagan leapt to wide public attention when he created the dances for the Broadway musical Lion King (1997) and won a Tony Award. Since 1972, Fagan has been a professor at the State Univ. of New York, Brockport.
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Michael Porter, the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor, at Harvard University occupies a rarified perch at the world's leading university as this worshipful October 2012 Fortune article explores. But the consulting firm he co-founded in 1983, Monitor Group, officially bit the dust on November 7. It's not clear what happened, but "self-inflicted wounds" are the likely culprit.
And one of those wounds was ignoring a key Porter prescription on strategy.
Monitor Group's greatest claim to fame in the last few years has been far from its roots as a firm that used Porter's concepts to help companies grow. As the Wall Street Journal put it, Monitor "got into some hot water in 2011 for its relationship with former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi."
While that publicity was no doubt painful, the Journal reports that Monitor's financial difficulties became acute in 2008 when its "revenues shrank and liquidity tightened."
In response, Monitor's partners wrote checks of $4.5 million to the company and did not take $20 million in bonuses in 2009. It also borrowed $51 million -- "by issuing notes to private equity firm Caltius Capital Management," according to the Journal.
Things started getting tight again this year. In September and October 2012, it could not pay the rent at its headquarters on the opposite end of Cambridge (near Boston's Museum of Science) that it moved to after I left. Nor could it make the most recent payments due on its Caltius notes. Deloitte Consulting acquired Monitor's assets for $116.2 million and the Boston Globe reports that it may lay off 235 of its 1,200 employees.
Porter is well-known among business students who must memorize and apply two of his earliest ideas -- five forces and value chain analyses -- in order to earn their degrees. However, as I pointed out in the preface to my new book, Hungry Start-up Strategy, published November 5, those students are rebelling against Porter.
The New York Journal of Books concluded that "while Porter advocates a highly structured, even dispassionate approach to an already established business, Mr. Cohan promotes personal passion and customer connection to creating the business."
I worked for Monitor when it was a babe in the corporate woods -- from 1986 to 1989 -- with offices next to Harvard's Kennedy School at University Place in Cambridge, Mass. During that time I had the honor of working directly with Porter on a few projects and traveled the world helping big companies develop growth strategies. My colleagues were outstanding and I learned a huge amount in a short time.
But rumors that Monitor was bankrupt or heading there have been circulating among my former colleagues who went on to other endeavors. I have no additional details about why Monitor ran into financial problems or how it scrambled to fix them.
But one thing I know for sure is that Monitor did not follow all of Porter's ideas when it came to running the firm. The most important idea that Monitor neglected is that companies need to choose how they will win in the marketplace.
Porter argued that companies can win by pursuing one of two generic strategies: they can either be low cost producers -- offering customers the lowest price -- think Wal-Mart (WMT) -- or differentiators -- delivering competitively superior value to customers and charging them a higher price for it -- think Apple (AAPL) in iPhones.
Monitor's problem was that it did not choose -- instead, it tried to win by delivering what it thought was a customized solution while charging a lower than industry-average price. Simply put, Monitor thought its services were more valuable than most customers did.
Moreover, customizing was expensive and Monitor did not charge the few customers who were willing to pay enough money to cover the full costs of such customization. Among the biggest costs was the missed profit that Monitor would have gotten had it been willing to use well-tested approaches that would generate results with lower risk.
Monitor was founded by six entrepreneurs -- many from Bain & Co. -- at Harvard Business School (HBS), including Porter. While Porter was "instrumental in the conception of the company and in acquiring clients at the early stage, the other five co-founders actually managed and ran the company," according to an interview with a former Monitor partner.
Monitor's operating co-founders decided not to do what the other firms were doing -- instead trying to be "creative and different." They wanted to uncover new information that the manager and user didn't know. Instead of focusing on cost reduction, Monitor focused on delivering unique but viable solutions.
Monitor's basic problem was that many clients did not perceive that difference as something that was worth paying more money for. Simply put, most companies wanted old ideas because most companies are "traditional, close-minded and slow to change."
Not only that but creative ideas are unproven -- so selling them to a client and getting them implemented is only possible if the client is willing to fail. In industries that are not making money, creative ideas might have a greater chance of being accepted since leaders' backs are up against the wall. But in industries that are making money, "creativity helps firms stay ahead but is sometimes not worth the risk to them. Being different does not appeal to many clients."
Monitor believed too much in the value of its own brilliance. It "tried to be so creative that it often failed to give the simple best solution. When someone asks for Kleenex, they don't need customized Kleenex."
And the recession hit Monitor particularly hard because clients needed well-tested solutions that were inexpensive to implement and that would deliver quick results. Monitor could not deliver such solutions.
Perhaps Monitor could have survived if it had broken itself into two pieces: a cash cow and an innovation engine. The cash cow would have delivered practical solutions with well-tested methodologies -- and the profits to fund the innovation engine that would come up with new ideas that would yield future growth for Monitor and its clients.
Ultimately Monitor suffered from the cobbler's shoe problem -- it could not apply Porter's prescription to make a fundamental strategic choice about how to deliver competitively superior value to its customers.
And although its rise and fall would make a great HBS case study -- Monitor's investors, creditors, and employees are now paying the price.
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TitlePakistan: funding health care in the aftermath of the floods
In October 2011, as large parts of Pakistan's Sindh Province lay devastated by flooding, Mai Rasheeda Qambrani was in severe pain.
She was in the last month of pregnancy - her sixth in 10 years - but Rasheeda had not experienced any baby movements for a week. She needed urgent medical attention.
Her husband, Arbab Ali Qambrani, rushed her to Taluka Hospital, in Sindh's Baledai Union Council. She was immediately admitted for surgery.
Medical staff found that Rasheeda's baby had died in her womb.
Taluka Hospital, run by Muslim Aid, had recently been strengthened with a US$420,000 grant from OCHA's Emergency Response Fund (ERF), a mechanism to provide rapid and flexible funds at the onset of an emergency.
The grant allowed Muslim Aid to provide better primary and mother-and-child health care by purchasing essential medical supplies and improving health facilities. It was able to provide free medical care to people affected by the floods.
The upgraded hospital was the only option available to Rasheeda, as private health care was too expensive. She had received no prenatal health care during her pregnancy. "We are poor. My husband is a daily-wage labourer and it's hard to make the ends meet," she said.
"We went to Taluka Hospital hoping the humanitarian aid workers there would help us in our time of need. I found many women waiting for treatment at the hospital, but since my case was serious, they urgently attended to me."
The hospital staff pulled out all the stops to save Rasheeda's life, and put her on the path to recovery.
"We lost our baby, but that was the will of Allah (God). Thankfully, proper medical attention saved my wife's life," said Mr. Qambrani. "I am relieved we got to the hospital in time to save her life."
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S.A.'s Lovely Rita turns 89
After Rita Vidaurri's show-stopping, scene-stealing performance at the unveiling of the new Lydia Mendoza postage stamp at the Guadalupe Theater last week, maybe the singer should just skip her 89th birthday Wednesday and go straight to 90.
A big, round number is more befitting of her outsized personality and talents.
"She still brings down the house; she's still the star," said Graciela Sanchez, Esperanza Peace and Justice Center executive director, praising the singer's "amazing history."
Perhaps Vidaurri will do it, bend time a little. After all, she was named for Saint Rita of Cascia, the patron saint of the impossible — an intercessor for the abused, for those in mourning, for the lonely.
In many ways, Vidaurri and "the impossible" have walked hand in hand. It's hard to imagine the confident singer, famous for her slightly naughty, Cantinflas-style jokes, as a painfully shy, often-sad youngster.
"I've suffered since I was a little girl," Vidaurri said matter-of-factly.
She was born May 24, 1924, in a tiny house in the 600 block of Montezuma Street not far from the corner where the Guadalupe Theater was later built.
She was the oldest of three children born to Juan and Susie Vidaurri.
Her parents were poor.
Vidaurri's father operated a gas station in the neighborhood and a small beer joint at the corner of Buena Vista and Frio streets. In later years, he became politically active; he was known as "El Viejito" in the barrio. In July 1977, a small park on Merida Street was renamed for him.
Vidaurri credits her mother, a cleaning woman, for her singing career. When she was 12, her mom would take her to Teatro Nacional downtown to sing. She emulated Mendoza and Eva Garza.
With her sister, Henrietta, she performed as Las Hermanitas Vidaurri in the late 1930s. They made their first recording at Tomas Acuña's garage studio on the West Side, taking "furniture for my mother" in lieu of royalties. The tunes were "Alma Angelina" and "Atotonilco."
The joy was short-lived.
Vidaurri was 15 when her mother died of tuberculosis at age 31.
The teenage girl was left to care for siblings Henrietta and Juan.
"I was the one with the load to carry," she said. "My mother made me promise to take care of them. She called my brother 'El Pollito.' My sister got married real young, and I was stuck with my father and my little brother."
Vidaurri coped. She went to night school at Lanier High School. She also worked as a mechanic at her dad's garage.
"He treated me like a boy," Vidaurri said.
That didn't last long since she soon gained notoriety.
Her father took her to Monterrey, Mexico, to sing on the advice of Cantinflas. She learned how insular her life had been at a nightclub called El Partenón.
"They made fun of me. They used to call me 'la pocha,'" said Vidaurri, adding that she only knew three songs — "Guadalajara," "Jalisco" and "Por Un Amor" — and dressed as a charro in high heels to perform.
"It's like you're not Mexican and you're not American, gringa, you're a mix," she said. "It hurt me because in those years, I thought of myself as Mexicana."
But her voice commanded respect, "low but real loud."
"The keys I sing in are the keys of the man," Vidaurri said.
She was soon performing on radio shows in Mexico City and with Celia Cruz and Olga Guillot in Cuba. In her hometown, she was known as the Jax Beer poster girl.
She developed her song and comedy act by accident after breaking a guitar string onstage. An orchestra musician offered to fix it but urged her "to say something."
"I had heard this joke where two old men go to get a free lunch," she said. "That was the first, and the people laughed. I said, 'OK, my guitar is ready, let me sing another song.' And they yelled, 'Another joke, another joke, otro chiste.' From there I started. I used to be very serious. Now, that I'm old, I'm always joking."
For all the laughter, her life has often been filled with sadness and mourning. She outlived her three sons; all died relatively young. She has a daughter, but the two aren't particularly close.
She gave up a successful career in the late 1950s at the insistence of one of her husbands. It's only been recently that Vidaurri has received wider recognition. Her revival has led to the rediscovery of singers Blanca Rodriguez, Beatriz Llamas and Janet Cortez.
They perform collectively as Las Tesoros, a group formed through the Esperanza. Vidaurri also played a role in the rediscovery of Eva Garza, who died in 1966.
But she's not super woman. She has suffered three heart attacks, and she had a quadruple bypass in 2009. Despite the bravado and wisecracking, she's says she's often lonely.
KEDA DJ Mark "El Tacuache" Weber spins Vidaurri's music on his Sunday program and sometimes does yard work at her home.
"I love him as if he were my own child. He has been so good to me," she said.
Weber says he's "kind of like a substitute son."
"I just call her every once in awhile and we talk. We'll go out and drink beer together," Weber said.
For her part, Vidaurri has this birthday message for the younger generation: "If you have parents, please give them a call on the phone. Don't forget to call once in awhile."


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"How do I protect myself from witchcraft or evil eye?"
I have been asked this question a lot. That if I were to charge ten Philippine peso per person every time I'm asked this question, I would have earned several thousands of peso by now.
In order to save time from answering this question, I thought I'd just write about it.
But before we talk about that, it begets the question as to evil eye or witchcraft is real?
If we were to base our answer on Buddhist Sutras and Taoist texts, the answer is definitely yes. In fact, one of the Shakyamuni Buddha's disciple, Ananda, was bewitched by a witch so that he will break his vow of celibacy and sleep with her daughter who happens to be a hospitality girl. This is where the Surangama Mantra started, and it was followed by the Surangama Sutra.
Evil Eye is basically "usog" in Filipino. This happens when a person who has a strong neutral or bad chi looks at you and intentionally or unintentionally wish you bad thing, and that bad thing happens to you. Or when a person gives you that look and you start to get sick. This is quite common than we realize.
Witchcraft on the other hand is not very common. I believe that it still exist, however, it is not as common as most people think it is. Doing witchcraft is much more complicated and requires a lot of chi. however, contrary to popular belief, despite the negative connotation of the word; witchcraft does not necessary mean evil. There are positive witchcraft, it really depends on what energy you use. But for the purpose of this article, witchcraft here refers to something evil or bad.
Here are top 5 ways to protect yourself from evil eye or witchcraft:
STAY POSITIVE AND STAY GOOD. If we stay positive and if we stay good we only attract positive chi. this should help protect us from all those evil eyes or negative power of witchcraft.
WEAR AN AMETHYST OR CLEAR QUARTZ. Wearing these two crystals will provide us with a positive auric shield. However, this is only effective for evil eyes and light form of witchcraft. If you are attacked with something stronger then this definitely will not work.
TAKE A SALT BATH. If you suspect that you got the evil eye or witchcraft is being done to you. Take a salt bath, make sure you use rock salt, sea salt, pink Himalayan salt, or the rare black salt. Put approximately 1 tablespoon of the salt on a small pail of water and use this at the start before you shampoo or soap yourself. For a bathtub, use about a cup and soak in it for a minimum of 5 minutes. Do this for one to three days for evil eye. If you suspect witchcraft, do this for 7 to 21 days.
WEAR A POWERFUL AMULET. One of the best ways to protect you from evil eye and witchcraft is to wear some powerful amulet. My favorite is definitely the one that is regarded as the world's most powerful amulet in the Buddhist pantheon called Vajrapani Ruel, but of course the Surangama Mantra Amulet blessed by a high ranking monk should work very well as well, the Illness Suppression Amulet is also a very good protective amulet for evil and witchcraft. The Jatukam Ramathep Amulet is also a very powerful amulet for this purpose.
CHANT PROTECTIVE MANTRAS IN A DEEP MEDITATIVE STATE. Chanting protective mantras in a deep meditative state, in a state that you are almost not aware of your surroundings is a very good protection against evil eye or witchcraft. The following mantras should prove helpful if chanted one after the other: (1.) OM AMI DEWA HRIH (2.) NAMO SAPTANAM SAMYAKSAM BUDDHA KOTINAM TADYATHA OM CHALE CHULE CHUNDI SOHA (3.) TADYATHA OM ANALE ANALE KHASAME KHASAME BHAYRE BHAYRE SAUMA SAUME SARVA BUDDHA ADISHTANA ADISHTITE SOHA OM SARVA TATHAGATHA USHNISHA SITATAPUTRA HUM PHAT HUM MAMA HUM NI SOHA.
Chant it 108x each mantra.
You can read the other posts on this series:
- Witchcraft: It Is Not What You Think It Is But It Is More Common Than We Think It Is (Part 1)
- Witchcraft: It Is Not What You Think It Is But It Is More Common Than We Think It Is (Part 2)
- Witchcraft: It Is Not What You Think It Is But It Is More Common Than We Think It Is (Part 3)
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failed 71%. Please can UK immigration send me to Ubon . I was particularly impressed with the questions which are of course commonplace knowledge to UK natives. I was saying only the other day "wouldn't it be fantastic if every immigrant knew the year women were given the right to vote or divorce"!!!
And of course if 'they' know the UK population to the nearest million, then of course they will assimilate quicker.
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CALGARY — A female lynx and her kitten are causing quite a stir around Lake Louise, prompting temporary closures on runs at the ski resort after several sightings of the elusive animal.
In mid-January, a pair of lynx was spotted along Highway 1A near Lake Louise and it looks like they're still spending time in the area.
"It appears to be a mother and a kitten," said Brianna Burley, Parks Canada's human wildlife conflict specialist for Banff, Yoho and Kootenay national parks.
"We make the assumption that it's the same pair, but we don't know for sure."
There have been at least four or five sightings of a lynx and a kitten in the Lake Louise Ski Area in the past week.
Parks Canada said it's working with the ski area to make sure the pair is protected.
"Every time they receive an observation of this lynx and kitten, they are calling us and then the ski hill is doing a temporary ski run closure of the area just to give the species space until they move back off into cover," Burley said. "It's actually working quite well."
She said they have had reports of lynx at the ski resort in previous winters, but it's unusual to have so many sightings.
"It's rare for people to see lynx," she said, noting there's no major concern for the animals at this time.
"It's a really unique thing right now to see them, and we are working with the ski hill right now to manage it to the best of our ability."
Wildlife experts said they aren't surprised there have been more lynx sightings this year.
"This is a peak year for lynx," said Mark Boyce, a biological sciences professor at the University of Alberta. "We have lynx everywhere."
He said the species goes through a 10-year cycle that's now at its peak.
"It's almost like clockwork," said Boyce, explaining it's a three-way interaction between the lynx as the predator, the snowshoe hare and the hare's food plants.
"It's amazingly regular," he explained. "In 2002, it wasn't a real high peak, but this appears to be a really high peak this time."


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A collage of personal, political,cultural, and historical commentary from the thought processes of Brandon Wallace.
Monday, September 19, 2011
Interview with Daniel Joseph Baker
Daniel Joseph Baker is clearly the most talented person to have graced the stage of this season's America's Got Talent. It came as a jilting shock to all of us who embraced this magnificent spectacle of talent and actually decided to tune in every week just to see him when he was eliminated. No matter. Daniel is a raw talent, possessing an animal magnetism that puts him in the tradition of Labelle, Grace Slick, and Lady Gaga. I recently got in touch with him via Facebook and asked him if I could interview him for my blog. Graciously, he agreed. This is what transpired.
1. How long have you been a singer and performer?
Since I was 6 years old at Church baptisms.
2. What made you try out for AGT?
I was very unhappy with the status of my life. I feel like it was worth continuing. I had a dream of performing on television, so that unhappiness drove me to audition for AGT on a whim.
3. What is your greatest aspiration?
To have a career in the entertainment industry.
4. Who are the major influences on your music?
Nicole Scherzinger, Lady Gaga, & Christina Aguilera. These are the only 3 people I look towards for ideas & inspirations for my next performances!
5. What is your background and where are you from?
I was raised in a mormon household & was born in Washington state.
6. Did you like the environment you grew up in? Did it nurture your creativity?
I loved my childhood. My parents never got mad at me for singing & banging on the piano during all hours of the night. They wanted me to continue perfecting my talents.
7. Have you been embraced by any gay celebrities? Which ones?
Raja from drag race tweeted me. That was my favorite!
8. How has fame been treating you?
I don't consider myself famous at all.
9. How would you describe your personal style? Where did the leg-on-the-piano thing come from?
My personal style: FIERCE. Foot on the piano: (any monster knows this) GAGA
10. How was your experience on AGT?
Best experience of my life so far. No negatives to list at all. It gave me so much confidence.
11. Where did you normally perform before AGT?
I performed in church and school growing up. But in recent years, only in my house.
12. Were you shocked when you were eliminated?
I was shocked at first. But I've always kept in mind that anything is possible. I want to thank my fans for supporting me through it.. Everything happens for a reason.
13. Of any artists past or present, who would you want to emulate in terms of your career?
I love Liberace & Elton John. I also love Cher & Nicole Scherzinger. I WANNA BE A PUSSYCAT DOLL!
14. Do you have anything in the works?
.I've been booking gigs & am moving to Hollywood! Danfans should look out for me!!
Thanks, Daniel!
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CHICAGO (AP) — Members of the bipartisan panel charged with drafting a solution to Illinois' monstrous pension problem began their odyssey Thursday with hours of familiar testimony about the nearly $100 billion crisis and faint hints that compromise might still be possible after repeated stalemates at the state Capitol.
The committee's members said they were dedicated to finding common ground, but most didn't seem optimistic that they would meet Gov. Pat Quinn's July 9 deadline for coming up with a proposal. And they left Thursday's packed meeting without a clear plan aside from staying in communication and setting a second public hearing for Wednesday.
"What I'm committed to … is to work on a daily basis, communicating with the conference committee members to solve the problem," said Democratic Sen. Kwame Raoul, the chair of the committee. "I'm not foreign to issues that have reached impasse and working beyond impasse. I've done so in the Legislature on multiple issues. And on none of them have I set a firm deadline because I think it's somewhat irresponsible and setting yourself up for failure."
The 10-member panel, known as a conference committee, was formed last week, the end result of a special session on pensions as both chambers remained divided with competing plans from House Speaker Michael Madigan and Senate President John Cullerton.
The five senators and five representatives slogged through nearly five hours of testimony Thursday from unions, business groups, Quinn's budget director and others who again painted gloomy pictures of Illinois' worst-in-the-nation pension problem and the tough choices in tackling it.
Quinn, who has made pensions his focus for more than a year, scolded group members for taking "their sweet time." After signing several education funding bills into law, he reiterated his stance Thursday that failure to address the pension problem squeezes out other spending and is costing the state more. The pension problem has also led to the repeated downgrades of the state's credit rating and Illinois taxpayers have to pay at least $130 million extra in interest payments for a bond sale this week because of it.
"This is an emergency," Quinn said after the signing. "Just listening to some of these folks on that committee, they've spent more time complaining about the deadline than they should in my opinion spend time doing the work of getting pension reform."
The Chicago Democrat also threatened that any bill that lawmakers send him that's "piecemeal or insufficient or inadequate" will be vetoed. He said any plan must fully fund the pension system.
Several members of the committee said it was more important to come up with an actuarially sound plan than meet quickly approaching Quinn's deadline and that they wouldn't be wedded to either the Cullerton or Madigan plans.
Rep. Elaine Nekritz, a Northbrook Democrat who has been involved in pension talks for years, said the committee was a chance to set a "factual foundation" and if Quinn wanted the group to meet earlier, he should have instructed them to do so.
"I hope we can hear from folks who are willing to help us get beyond that and not retreat back to our respective corners," she told committee members. "We need to be cognizant of the urgency of that and still change our mindsets, and that's not easy to do."
She and others said it was encouraging to see lawmakers on both sides at the same table, at least listening to the issues — something they said might finally lead to a solution after years of inaction. The committee has six Democrats and four Republicans.
State Sen. Matt Murphy, a Palatine Republican, said he thought Quinn's deadline was reasonable.
Illinois has roughly $98 billion in unfunded pension liability because legislators skipped or shorted payments to state retirement funds for years. While no one disagrees that it's the state's most pressing problem, lawmakers adjourned the spring legislative session again last month without a deal, making it the fifth time in a year that they've left town without solving the problem.
That dissidence was still evident at Thursday's hearing with back-and-forth among committee members about their exact mission and how to proceed.
State Sen. Bill Brady, a Republican who announced his gubernatorial bid this week, questioned why the committee didn't have a concrete plan, but said he didn't have one either when Raoul asked committee members.
"I'm a little disappointed that we didn't make more progress," he said after the hearing.
It was also clear from the testimony how deeply the issue has divided interest groups.
For instance, the We Are One Illinois coalition of unions, backs Cullerton's bill over Madigan's plan.
Cullerton's plan gives workers and retirees a choice in retirement benefits, but was never called for a House floor vote. Unions say that it'll better survive a court challenge than Madigan's plan, which unilaterally cuts benefits. Quinn has supported Madigan's plan.
Steve Kreisberg, a national pension policy director for American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, said Cullerton's legislation "is the compromise bill."
Others who testified included state Rep. Lou Lang, a Skokie Democrat who reminded lawmakers of his reform plan that includes making the temporary income tax increase permanent to help pay the state portion of employee pension costs.
Associated Press writer Jason Keyser contributed to this report.
See also:
- Public pensions top list of $1-billion-plus hedge fund investors
- Running out of funds in retirement
- Take pension benefits to the max


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WOW, I'm excited that Amazon is allowing us to vote on potential covers for the "Night of the Creeps" DVD, but these are three of the worst covers ever made... for ANYTHING. Seriously, with all the amazing original cover art, how the hell did this happen?
New film called "Dances With Werewolves"... I see what they did there.
Jackie Earle Haley signed on for three "Nightmare on Elm St." films. This could either be really great or really terrible... depending on how things turn out.
Wanna take your top off in "A Nightmare on Elm St."? They weren't interested in me, something about "not having huge fake tits". Ah well.
A dark version of "Snow White" sounds pretty awesome, although I'm guessing they won't have to try so hard to make it scary. Those old Disney films are still terrifying.
John Lithgow joins "Dexter"... as a serial killer. I'm nominating this for best story of the week, hands down.
"Sorority Row", the remake of the 1983 film "The House on Sorority Row", has been rated "R for strong bloody violence, language, some sexuality/nudity and some partying". So "partying" gets you an R rating these days? That's interesting.
"Alien" gets a remake, apparently shooting down any hope that it might get a 5th installment. Supposedly though, Michael Costigan, Ridley Scott and Tony Scott are all on board as producers, and have picked their own director. So I guess that's good news?
Bruce Willis to star in "Grimm", a ghost story with one of the longest synopses I've ever seen... which can be found at the link. Directed by Russel Mulcahey, who also helmed 2007's "Resident Evil: Extinction".
Lars Von Trier's controversial film "Antichrist" has been picked up by IFC films. Hot off the controversy it caused at Cannes with its graphic violence, the film will now be coming to US shores as early as this summer. No word on what type of release IFC will give the film, but they are known for non-traditional theatrical/on demand models.
New Platinum Dunes blog on their "Nightmare on Elm St." shooting. Of course they're going to be positive, but word is that Jackie Earle Haley's rendition of Krueger is just as kick-ass as most of us have anticipated. Don't get me wrong, I'm still withholding excitement, but consider my curiosity peaked.
Brace yourself. David Slade, director of "30 Days of Night", will be directing the third film in the "Twilight" franchise, subtitled "Eclipse". Uh... what? Slade has not made a statement yet, but I'm sure someone is tracking him down right now to ask him what the hell he's thinking.
Rumors are that Rooney Mara is in final negotiations to play "Nancy" in the remake of "A Nightmare on Elm St." No confirmation yet, but the source seems reliable from what I read at the link.
The director of "S. Darko" says he's in the process of remaking the 1978 film "The Eyes of Laura Mars". That may be the most obscure sentence I've ever written.
"Chaos Experiment" is about a scientist working on a theory that humanity will devolve into violence by 2012 due to global warming, and attempting to prove that by locking a bunch of half-naked people in a sauna. Not exactly the most scientific experiment, but it is a really good way for filmmakers to force their stars to be in their underwear for 90 minutes.
A body cast of Arnold Schwarzenegger, taken at the time of the first "Terminator" film, is being used to create a fully functional CGI character of Arnie for "Terminator Salvation". THAT, should be interesting.
"Wolverine" producer looking for a writer so she can make a "Constantine" sequel. Huh, I'm one of the few that enjoyed the first "Constantine", and that sentence STILL makes my head hurt.
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I think I could get into an adaptation of this "Ghosts/Aliens" book. It's literally about "two pothead friends who set out on a question to discover both ghosts and aliens". It just got picked up by Paramount Vantage, and along with a feature film version, Comedy Central will be prepping a television show based on the property.
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Patrick Neal, CEO and chief investment officer of TreePoint Capital Management, tells Barron's at the 2012 Art of Successful Investing conference that he is using options to hedge his investment in Wal-Mart Stores.
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